Two days after collecting my Yeti, someone has keyed it. :S I parked it close to a bicycle parking bay at work, making VERY sure that I wasn't blocking any bikes or hampering access, but clearly someone was either jealous of my new car, or a misguided tree-hugging hippy, or just a plain oxygen thief.

To be honest, I almost expected this. I was feeling uneasy all day about where I'd parked, for no good reason, but the first thing I did when I got back to my car is check it for damage and sure enough there it was. There's no surveillance of the area and little chance of finding who dunnit.

I'm not really angry - just a bit fed-up. Realistically, it is only a car and in a week, month, year it'll be fixed and I won't even think about it.

I've had a quote from one of these SMART repair types for £220 + VAT, which is cheaper than my insurance excess. The damage is not polishable but it isn't down to the metal either. The guy I spoke to was very confident it could be made like-new, but there's some question as to whether he can get the paint mix, since it is so new!

Edited 9 February, 201214 yr by weasley

You appear to be relatively calm about it all.

If it was me I would be spitting feathers!

I really hope you get it sorted quickly.

Sorry to hear your car was vandalised, I honestly despair at the outright badness of some people.

Am sure they had a good nights sleep with a smug smile on their idiotic face. You can only hope that one day they will get a taste of something similar and get to see how it feels.

Thats a disgrace.

I'd be going crazy to be honest, blood pressure through the roof.

You have the correct attitude, it is only a car and can be repaired.

What goes through peoples heads to do this type of thing?:(

Sorry to see what's happened. What satisfaction does somebody get from that?

The colour looks great though, and I'm sure it will be back looking good as new soon.

My blood would have boiled too........ Urgh. What satisfaction can you get from that at all?!?!

Nor would I have been so calm. Some of you may remember that someone bent the front wheel arch of my SM when it had only been on the road for a week; and in the past few days someone has taken a chunk out of my wife's front bumper (her car, that is, not her personally: probably when parked at a supermarket while visiting her father in Bolton) and someone clipped the front corner of my daughter's two-week-old Kia Rio while it was parked outside her house in Milton Keynes. No comeback in either case, of course.

Yes, indeed, there are some very careless people out there.

Don't get it done by a scratch repair guy as they are only quick fixes the paint they use is inferior and is not baked on properly and within a year or so it will look crap we had our greenline scratched by a friends dog a week after getting it and skoda told us to not even contemplate scratch repair as it will look crap.

Also my mate who use to do spray repair also said not to get scratch repair as threy are only used by people as a quick fix so they can sell the car on quickly

Best bet is to goto your skoda dealer and see who they recommend to have the door completely resprayed as they will use a reputable dealer with excellent results also do Internet searches on the place.

Also if the job in the end turns out to be bad you have some recourse with skoda if they recommended a place you then go and use

The complete respray of our drivers door and blending spray of wing and rear door cost us £350 with vat and the job is perfect

No point in spending close to 20 grand on a car and doing a cheap fix on it especially with metallic paint as thats hard to blend in properly

Edited 9 February, 201214 yr by Yetigreenline2

Gosh weasley, that's really tragic news - it does look like some person has been extremely careless or vindictive.

I'm sure you won't park anywhere near those cycle racks again?

Do you have an office intranet/noticeboard? I'd be very tempted to post something along the lines that accidental damage has occured and that you've been given some information as to who might be responsible, I'd then give that person an opportunity to come clean and discuss the cost of repairs?

I too would steer well clear of the quick fix scratch repair guys - that's a fairly substantial scratch and I reckon it needs a proper professional repair using the correct paint and baking to ensure a lasting result. Go through a Skoda dealership or Skoda (VAG) approved bodyshop - that way you'll preserve your warranty.

It won't be the cheapest option but you should end up with a 'good as new' Yeti.

Fel really sorry for you

What bad news and what scumbags for doing it!

All I can say is fingers crossed you have got rid of any bad luck with your new monster in the first week.

Should be plain sailing from now on!

Utter moronic scumbags who should be put against a wall and shot !!!!

sorry for your pain, I am one of those people that parks miles away, just to ensure a safer parking place, and previous cars have still suffered.

Respect for the calmness, I would probably be having a meltdown still, looking angry at anyone passing...

I still remember how upset I was when I had my 8-year old car scratched from front to back as I left it precisely on a parking spot to do some shopping. It was more than six years ago. And a couple of months ago someone left their Ford C-Max across a path beside the house where I live. It stood there for several days, everyone had to go round a big puddle to pass trough, but noone dared to make even a small scratch. There is no justice in the world Luckily one wise person took a lipstick and wrote the right words on the windscreen.

Feel pity for you, weasley

Edited 9 February, 201214 yr by briskycat

Oh no! :( I had my car keyed, and I managed to paint, and paint correct it with auto glym paint renovator can't notice it at all now.... and that had cost me £10 to do 2 doors....

I'm sorry buddy, maybe you can try and get a halfords touch up pen and do it yourself...

Sorry to hear! To coin a Spike Millgan phrase...the best I can wish of them is an early death!.........

Hope you get it sorted soon; would also support the view of going through the dealer, particularly if your planning keeping the car a while.

Regards,

TP

Oh no weasley that is awful. Why oh why do some folk not give a damn about other peoples possessions that they have worked and saved hard for. I would have been like a wild woman if that had happened to me!!!!

I still remember how upset I was when I had my 8-year old car scratched from front to back as I left it precisely on a parking spot to do some shopping. It was more than six years ago. And a couple of months ago someone left their Ford C-Max across a path beside the house where I live. It stood there for several days, everyone had to go round a big puddle to pass trough, but noone dared to make even a small scratch. There is no justice in the world Luckily one wise person took a lipstick and wrote the right words on the windscreen.

Feel pity for you, weasley

Your lipstick comment on an inappropriately parked car made me think of this I saw this week:

http://carscoop.blog...frustrated.html

Usually, when an insensitive driver double-parks on the road blocking the way to other vehicles, all it takes is a call to the police to get things sorted out. But there comes a time when frustrated drivers take matters into their own hands… Which is what happened in Exarcheia, a neighborhood in downtown Athens, Greece, when the owner of what looks like a fairly new Audi A3 Sportback parked in front of a couple of large metal trash bins partially blocking the road.

While most passenger cars were able to make it through, a city bus that was making its routine trek around town couldn't fit. The bus driver along with the other drivers that were piling up behind kept honking again and again but to no avail; the owner of the Audi was nowhere to be seen.

So they decided to teach the A3 owner a very expensive lesson he or she will never forget; they turned the car on its side. Problem solved...

Sweet!!! Oh to have seen this person's face when they returned!

:rofl:

A harsh lesson

Utter moronic scumbags who should be put against a wall and shot !!!!

+1

Sad to hear about this, especially on such a new car!

Unfortunately it happens all too often. This was the result when my friend parked his month old A5 coupe in the wrong place while at the Lowry theatre in Salford...

@weasley: One thing that comes to my mind is the quote from the classic (please excuse rather rough but adequate language):

Lance:

Still got your Malibu?

Vincent:

Aw, man. You know what some f*cker did the other day?

Lance:

What?

Vincent:

F*cking keyed it.

Lance:

Oh, man, that’s f*cked up.

Vincent:

Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some d*ckless piece of sh** f*cked with it.

Lance:

They should be f*cking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

Vincent:

Boy, I wish I could’ve caught him doing it. I’d have given anything to catch that a**hole doing it. It’d been worth him doing it just so I could’ve caught him doing it.

Lance:

What a f*cker!

Vincent:

What’s more chickensh** than f*cking with a man’s automobile? I mean, don’t f*ck with another man’s vehicle.

Lance:

You don’t do it.

Vincent:

It’s just against the rules..

Edited 14 February, 201214 yr by EZ_lo

Hi weasley

Did you find out who damaged your car? Wondered if someone at your work had owned up.

Nope. The parking is shared by a number if businesses, totalling several hundred employees; there's little chance of justice I'm afraid. Hopefully it'll be sorted next week.